caminus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmiː.nus/, [käˈmiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmi.nus/, [käˈmiːnus]

camīnus m (genitive camīnī); second declension

1. fireplace
2. furnace, forge
3. (poetic) Vulcan's forge
4. (figuratively) fire

Second-declension noun.

• camīnō
• camīnāta

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139

• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caminus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caminus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “caminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caminus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “camínus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995), Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, page 34